Pushkin, Dmitri O; Aref, Hassan - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336 (2004) 3, pp. 571-584
The asset size distribution of US banks is viewed as the result of a scale-free coagulation process. When two banks merge, the assets of the combined institution equals the sum of the assets of the constituent banks. Analysis of the Smoluchowski coagulation equation suggests the emergence of a...